GUNDA. — THEOPHILA. 37 



Fore wing ochreous brown, much suffused with red-brown, espe- 

 cially at inner and outer areas ; two dark spots near base ; a highly 

 curved subbasal line ; two nearly straigbt medial lines, the outer 

 line met by an oblique streak from the costa across the end of cell ; 

 a waved submarginal line ; a dark mark at apex. Hind wing 

 red-brown, ochreous towards anal angle and outer margin ; two 

 indistinct waved lines ; inner area dark red-brown, suffused with 

 grey ; two dark marks at anal angle. Underside of hind wing 

 with two dark specks in the cell and the lines more distinct. 

 Where thinly scaled the wing-membrane shows highly iridescent 

 colours. 



§ . Yellow ; the thorax suffused with reddish brown ; the fore 

 wing with reddish brown near inner and outer margins ; hind wing 

 suffused with reddish brown at base and near anal angle ; the 

 transverse lines as in male, but less distinct. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Ceylon. Eccp., J 42, $ 62 millim. 



Genus THEOPHILA. 

 Theophila, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 683. 



Type, T. Jiuttoni, Westw. 



Range. N.W. Himalayas ; Sikhim ; Bengal and ? Madras. 



Palpi absent. Fore wing highly excised below the apex ; the 

 outer margin slightly angled ; veins 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked together, 

 7, 8, 9 not much bent downwards. Hind wing with vein 5 from 

 above the middle of the discocellulars ; veins 6 and 7 stalked. 



42. Theophila huttoni, Westw. Cab. Or. Ent. p. 26, pi. 12, fi?. 4 ; Hutt. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. 1864-66, p]. 19, fig. 4 (larva) ; C. Sf S. no. 1103. 

 Bombyx sherwilli, Hutt. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) ii, 1864, p. 324 ; 



C. Sf S. no. 1105. 

 Bombyx affinis, Hutt., Geoghegan's Silk in India, App. A, p. 3 ; 



C. $ S. no. 1101. 

 Bombyx bengalensis, Hutt. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) ii, 1864, p. 322, 



pi. 19, fig. 5 (larva) ; C. $ S. no. 1 L02. 

 Bombyx religiosae, Heifer, J. A. S. B. vi, p. 41, pi. 6; C. fy S. 



no. 1104. 



Fig. 21. — Theophila huttoni, <$. \. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown. The outer margin of 

 both M'ings more or less crenulate. Fore wing grey-brown, 

 obliquely curved antemedial and medial indistinct dark lines : a 



